Merry Christmas to all our good friends.  We'd like to tell you all how much we appreciate your patronage... how much we've enjoyed knowing and serving you.  Fondest wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.  The Jack Sprat Food Market was one of the neighborhood food stores in Ames.

1954 Melander's Ninth Street Market employees are: from left, Milton Sigler, Harry Davis, Marion Dorothy, Mary Magill, Phyllis Meyers, Stanley Strunce, Fred Malander, James Rutherford, and Wesley Myers.  Francis Noble is not pictured.